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Are cookie rules low on the regulator’s radar?

Published on: 04 June 2013

Table of contents

  • Original news
  • What did the E-Privacy Directive seek to achieve?
  • Why has there been such a slow uptake of compliance with the E-Privacy Directive?
  • What risks are companies facing?
  • Is the ICO likely to take action? What are the penalties?
  • What should lawyers do next?

Article summary

IP & IT analysis: Phil Lee is a partner at Field Fisher Waterhouse in the Privacy and Information Law Group and heads its US office in Palo Alto, California. As a specialist in behavioural profiling and cookie regulation, he discusses why online businesses have so far been slow to comply with the E-Privacy Directive’s ‘cookie consent’ rule.

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